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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board November 5, 2009 Approved December 3, 2009 BJ' s comment is an important one . We have sent a letter to the Board asking that the work group, we don' t understand the work group from the rural community perspective because it seems that the timing is wrong . Right now we have cut schools, we' ve cut all kinds of budgets and to be talking about spending millions of dollars on convenience centers maybe in 5 years from now but certainly it is not something you will get a respective response from the community for a while . We wonder if there should be a moratorium on the kind of major infrastructure and we ' ve asked for a moratorium on infrastructure, improvements for solid waste until a waste transfer station or whatever we are going to do is decided and the routes are set. We are years away from that. That' s a real question of how much money are we going to spend on this . There is notion about how much money people will spend for garbage . If you wanted to take $100 from people do you want to take it to pay for the convenience centers, ide garbage pickup . I don' t think there is an endless curbside recycling or curbs nity to pay for solid waste services . Not that we don' t value it. budget in the commu It feels to me that there is a little bit of conflict in how the convenience centers are viewed . I realized from the solid waste department it is a system of garbage and recycling . In the rural communities, Eubanks not so much, but in the other ones they are community centers . You meet your neighbors there . People have their kids dumping garbage, they are helping with recycling . They are community centers and we kind of like it that way . It is something to look at in terms of how you plan this . Sassaman states that I hear you particularly on the latter issue . One thing about your issue of recycling other things, that is something that I didn' t bring up as one of the advantages of the convenience centers because they provide a place where you can take batteries, electronics, grease etc . those are things that you can' t economically pick up in a single stream system because they mess up the system . You can do it at the convenience centers because you are self hauling it. Guild states that there is another thing that goes on at the convenience centers which I think is cool, where you can take things you may not need anymore - the salvage sheds . When I take things there they' re gone, immediately . That' s a real community . Frank Tozzolina [citizen] states that I live in the rural area near Dodson s Crossroads . My driveway is 300 ft. long, gravel uphill . I' m relatively young compared to some that live in the area . I can' t image someone who is in their 70s, 80s or with poor health managing to get a trash bin with wheels up the driveway . You were talking about havingience gravity fed at the convenience centers, it is the same for rural people . We are dealing with gravity and we are dealing with distance on gravel roads . It is unthinkable to think that there might be mandatory garbage pickup at the end of my driveway and me having to pay for that. I might as well get a private hauler and pay 8